Is a region of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent-sharped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean sea.

(Mes uh puh TAY mee uh), a wide, flat plain in present-day Iraq.

Or supply water to crops, They dug many miles of irrigation canals to bring water from the rivers to their fields.

Is an independent state that includes a city

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Term	Definition
Fertile Crescent	Is a region of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent-sharped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean sea.
Mesopotamia	(Mes uh puh TAY mee uh), a wide, flat plain in present-day Iraq.
irrigate	Or supply water to crops, They dug many miles of irrigation canals to bring water from the rivers to their fields.
city-state	Is an independent state that includes a city
barter
polytheism
ziggurat
cuneiform